Seated group portrait of three ... India

Seated group portrait of three ... IndiaSeated group portrait of three of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Bedouin retainers in Al Ain. Each of the three men wears a headscarf (ghutra) and a light coloured thobe (long shirt). The two men on the right each have a camel stick. The background behind the men is a flat plain of rocky sand. This image was taken during April 6 30, 1948, when Wilfred Thesiger stayed at Al Muwaiji fort in Al Ain as a guest of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

The man at the front leads the camels on foot

Palm grove at Ghayl bin Yamayn

wearing an embroidered bonnet and a thobe (long shirt)

one sitting and one standing

A line of camels are couched along a long walled trough fed by a falaj

View of Wilfred Thesiger's travelling party walking across a dune in the Ramlat ar Rabbad sands

Portrait of three boys in Baydayn village in Wadi Hali

Behind them two men ride their camels toward the group

In the background four more camels are being led across the top of the same dune by other men in the travelling party

In the distance beyond steep limestone peaks sit high above the surrounding landscape

cutting the skin off the camel's back

pulling on a line of rope